meaning of extinct
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
3. To cause to be extinct.
4. of e. g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct
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